Documentary filmmaker Jacqueline Zünd’s first fiction feature “Don’t Let the Sun”– set to premiere at Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival – portrays a world of stifling heat where human contact is hard to establish. Speaking to Variety, the Swiss director talked about how the idea had come to her while working in Japan on her documentary “Almost There” in 2016: “The whole idea started with a discovery I made in Japan of an agency where you can rent any social relation, like somebody waving at the station when you go to the holidays, or somebody sitting close to you and saying nothing, or maybe a lost daughter or just a friend
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